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SOIL SOUL

Stopping to take care of my plants this weekend, I found that the tiny plants have been losing their soil through the bottom of their pot little by little through watering. Soil, as you know, is a plant's soul. They cant' live without it. My plants were losing their souls! Since those huge bags at the nursery were enough to cover the past history, present and future of my plant, my hubs and I found this little bag of soil for only $1.99. Perfect.

While picking up the soil, my husband bought me two more little herbs. Happy Wife. :) Lately, I've been attending Martha Stewart's Cooking School and focusing on herbs.

No, not real pencil and paper school, but it's actually a book I found at the library. =P It's really helpful in teaching about the basics of techniques and ingredients. Chef Michael Symon said something like... If you learn a recipe, you learn 1 recipe, but when you learn the characteristics of an ingredient, you can cook 100 recipes and more! So I've been trying to run with that in mind tasting the spice individually before tossing it in the pot, smelling it, noting where it's used and everything just short of wrapping it in a blanket and rocking it to sleep.

So I got two herbs I've been trying to use more for reinforcement learning. Here's my current plant collection with the new additions. Welcome to the family Rosemary and Oregano. :)

Currently, three of them are herbs, two of them are plants that tickle me funny and then there's my green onion garden. You can't really see it in the picture, but the green onions are arranged in four straight rows for maxiumum growth and aesthetics. :)

There's lemon grass in some of my cooking this week and I had some stalks leftover, so I'm going to try to coax them to grow in their pot. You can do it, lemon grass!

Lemon grass is very surprising. It's kind of a stiff stalk like some kind of light bark of a tree, but if you bite down on it once and "nom nom nom" to taste it as you would wine, it's tastes like a citrus, lemon-E ping.


Ping! :)



Bon Appetite!


Foodie Yoodie

Final days of the Summer Farmer's Market

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SQUIGGLY WIGGLY PASTA

(SMALL) MIRACLES AND (SMALL) ORANGES

Our heat absorber we've had for a while... crumbled today. It was sitting in water around the sink and when I touched it to remove it from the water, it crumbled like feta cheese.

So I'm glad some people have great timing, and mishaps can become little miracles.

Got this today! (thank you!)

Mrs. Potts thanks you too.

And we also got a new plant. A tangerine bush. Now we can eat all the tangerines we want!

Not!

It's actually a "pin cushion" plant that resembles a real pin cushion used in sewing. It holds the pins so it's all in one place and not out to poke people.

I'd still like to think it looks like a small version of these though.

Mmmmm....
Looks delicious!

My friend read the label of the plant and pointed out that it is "for decoration only. Do no consume." haha :)

Food for thought:

Imagine if those little dots really tasted like oranges.

It'd be like the honeysuckles we ate off the kindergarden playground!

Bon Appetite!

Foodie Yoodie

HOT MESS!

A funny, new plant.

( I nicknamed it Hot Mess)

Its future outlook?

Hopeful. :)

CATOS SATOC TASOC... TACOS!

Summer is slowly slipping away as we are fully into September, but the heat is back. To fight the heat, we had some nice fresh findings at the grocery store. Peaches! Peaches are in season now and they were looking incredibly fresh at the store. The best part? They were on sale.

Side note: There's a contestant on this season's Project Runway whose name is Peach. We think she's going to be out soon though! haha. But for now, these peaches that are still in.

Simple American style tacos for dinner tonight. It was one of those drive by shopping trips this week where one is close to a grocery store and needs only one thing, but ends up doing grocery shopping for the next few days. One of the impromptu menu items was tacos. I really need a list of things to buy because I forget things. Those shopping lists are not a myth!

So what did I invariably forget this time? Cilantro, cheese and sour cream. American tacos are really an infusion of our idea of tacos. Real mexican tacos do not have cheddar cheese and sour cream anyways. =P

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We live up on the second floor and there's a window that looks out. The window is perfect for dinner prep because I can see my husband as soon as he pulls in. He takes the form of a miniature figurine in the driveway and I can make last minute preparations before he comes upstairs. This was the cue for the avocados today. Can you see him? I tried to draw some lines so you could see him.

Start slicing~~~

All sliced up; the art deco inspired pile of avocados. It has resemblence to the transformer box that implodes in the first Transformers. Do you know what I'm talking about?

I tried to find the video for a visual but this is all I came up with. You get the idea though. If my avocado really imploded into a tiny square, I'd be so mad because I wouldn't have enough for the tacos!

And finally, profound moment I leave to you as food for thought.

This happened during egg poaching...

An egg bubble.
yay. :)

Bon Appetite!

Foodie Yoodie